Search warrants were served at five Ruston businesses early Thursday morning. This was the result of a four-month long investigation into the illegal sale of synthetic marijuana, bath salt items and credit card fraud.

On July 15, 2011, new legislation went into effect making it illegal to sale synthetic drugs in Louisiana. The Lincoln Parish Narcotics Enforcement Team, LPNET, started making purchases of these exact products on July 16, 2011 from five businesses in Ruston.

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The D’Arbonne Lake Watershed Commission held its monthly meeting last week, with reports being given on the lake alternative spillway addition and the 2012 lake drawdown project.

Commission President Noel James said that while recent weather has slowed the alternative spillway project, that delay is not expected to affect the timeline for completing the project.

“We’ve had a lot of rain that’s slowed things down,” James said. “But there was good progress made before the weather started and it looks like things are still on track to get things completed on time.”

The village of Choudrant has finally started to see some visible signs of the Interstate service road project that has been in the works for several years now.

During the village’s Monday night regular meeting, Mayor Bill Sanderson said he had heard from the engineers, and that stakes had been put out to mark where the approximately 5,000-foot roadway will be.

The field of candidates for the Nov. 4 primary election is official. At the close of the three-day candidate qualifying period Friday afternoon, 76 people had signed up to run in 23 races that will appear on the local ballot.

Junior Auxiliary of Ruston raised more than $1,200 and hundreds of school supplies for select Lincoln Parish students during the Stuff the Bus campaign.

Public Relations Chair Sandi Stephens said teachers from the area will select students to receive the items.

“We received backpacks, papers, pencils, crayons and other items for the schools,” she said. “We are happy to provide for the students when schools gets back into session.”
Stephens said teachers will select students in need of supplies and JA will deliver the items to the students.